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Quotes About Surprise

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
~ Brian Eno
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.
~ Marjorie M. Liu, The Iron Hunt
Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.
~ Goldie Hawn
Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.
~ John Flanagan
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.
~ Michael Cunningham
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
~ Horace
Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!
~ Ernie J Zelinski
Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.
~ Jack Nicholson
This shows you are never too old to get surprised.
~ Jack Welch
Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.
~ Joyce Maynard
You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.
~ Mary Browne
Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.
~ Sandra Bullock
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Expect the unexpected from the expected is key to happiness though they will be far
~ Sabin Basnet
Happiness often sneaks through doors you didn't even know were open
~ Err:508
Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.
~ William Goldman
Expect the Unexpected
~ Juliette Power
It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.
~ Nicole Williams, Crash
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
~ Christopher Morcom
You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul - you are disappointed.
~ Edith Södergran
They stared fondly at each other, remembering simpler days of unclouded idealism. Goodrich shook his head. "Solomon, you son of a bitch! What are you doing here?" Mark smiled exasperatedly, almost defensively. "I've been lonely for my family. Then I heard you were back. That did it. I came down.
~ James Webb
You have got to be kidding me.
~ James Wilson
Beware: I'm unafraid to host a big spoiler party--a novel that can be truly "spoiled" by the summary of its plot is a novel that was already spoiled by that plot.
~ James Wood